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Goblin Sharks Slingshot Their Jaws

Sharks Do Get Cancer

Whale Sharks Have 300 Rows of Useless Teeth

Lemon Sharks Have Friends

Swell Sharks Inflate and Glow Green

Megalodon Was Not the Great White's Ancestor

Hammerheads Scan the Seafloor Like Metal Detectors

Sharks Have Survived Five Mass Extinctions

Shark Blood Is Saltier Than the Sea

Dead Basking Sharks Are Mistaken for Sea Serpents

The Seven-Arm Octopus Has Eight Arms

Basking Sharks Filter a Swimming Pool an Hour

18% of a Great White's Brain Is for Smell

Sharks Sense Five Billionths of a Volt

Octopus Eyes Have No Blind Spot

Bull Sharks Swam 1,000 Miles Up the Mississippi

One Whale Shark Carried 300 Pups

Baby Bull Sharks Grow Up in Rivers

The Bonnethead Shark Is Half Vegetarian

A Day on Venus Lasts Longer Than Its Year

Octopuses Regrow Lost Arms

No Aquarium Has Kept a Great White Beyond 198 Days

Nurse Sharks Sleep in Piles of Dozens

Whale Sharks Are Identified With a Hubble Algorithm

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